Has your company done this?

[mick063]

8. Okay, I have to walk this back a bit.

For some reason, I blew it in the memory department. Getting old I guess.

This is actually a web catalog that they regularly email us. You still turned the pages and the company logo was still plastered everywhere. It still had the "Sears feel". Instead of a printed catalog it was simply on a web page.

Which brings up another peculiarity.

This catalog is on a secure government "LAN" network intended for government use. I can only log on while at work, using a work computer.

Oh well. No biggie I suppose. I just kinda thought it was "tacky". Perhaps I am way off. Perhaps they thought they were doing us a favor by providing "high quality" merchandise at the going rate. Perhaps they made little money at all from it. For some reason, though, I find this hard to believe. We are going through hard core labor contract negotiations (we overwhelmingly voted no on the "last, final, and best" proposal) and I find it hard to believe they would do anything beneficial for us unless they could squeeze a nickel out of it.

Perhaps good PR for people to wear their stuff around town? A form of advertising? They really don't need a couple thousand bucks. They don't bat an eye over spending that much.

I dunno.